I usually create a new copy of the relevant photo on my computer in the size I want it to be when uploaded (ie 700 - 800 pixels wide). I then upload this via Imageshack without any additional resizing. Sometimes I don't bother resizing in advance, but use the resizing option (640 x 480) when uploading via Imageshack. Both these methods have worked OK for me.

That might be a function of your browser's and monitor's viewing facilities. I use Mozilla Firefox, and have set the size of certain Web sites at an enlarged version, in order to see the type in readable form. The viewing size is adjustable by Ctrl-Plus and Ctrl-Minus. Unfortunately, compensating for some sites' too-small text results in too-large images.

That might be a function of your browser's and monitor's viewing facilities. I use Mozilla Firefox, and have set the size of certain Web sites at an enlarged version, in order to see the type in readable form. The viewing size is adjustable by Ctrl-Plus and Ctrl-Minus. Unfortunately, compensating for some sites' too-small text results in too-large images.

You may be right. I'm using the work computer (allegedly), and they have restrictions on what we can and can't do.

You click on the upload option 'image/video' and then click on 'Browse', select the pic you intend uploading:

You have the option here of putting in your e.mail address, this will register you as an Imageshack user (preferred, but not totally necessary). If you have a pic that's too large (approximately 750 pixels wide is both plenty for most pictures and not going to draw complaints about being too large), you can resize the pic as you upload it:

Then click on 'Upload' and let Imageshack do its thing. When it has you will have the option to select a link for a forum, for an e.mail to a friend, or a thumbnail for either. The pink marking is for a full size pic to pop up within your post, the green is for a thumbnail that will require the reader to click on it to get the full size pic.

Notice also that your registration as an Imageshack user is able to be expanded with a username to the right? Good idea in most cases, your pics then don't disappear after a year of not being accessed... they're permanent as long as Imageshack remains viable. So you fill it in:

Imageshack e.mail you a registration link so you can retain that in your e.mail files for future reference.

Once registered, you have a new appearance for Imageshack... and eventually you'll have all your images racked up to the left of the screen while on the right you get a bunch of options:

Again, highlighted are the two main ones. The green highlight is when you want to just upload one pic at a time... and the pink is (provided you have Flash installed) going to enable you to upload several pics at once:

When you click on the latter, you get the following:

By now you know what to do here. I've shown mine here because I don't have Flash Player operating on IE, which is the browser I used for the previous pics.

Once you have a bunch of pics up there, the thumbnails of the left top of each pic will show with a range of options (the various icons you can see here) alongside. Putting your cursor on each will give you the details of what they all do, the main one is the blue 'i' at the top:

Again, I've marked a couple of options... pink is the full size pic, as you're getting here... green is the thumbnail as below:

...and the purple is an option to delete the promotional line for Imageshack which you see below the last pic.

You now need to place that in your post. As the string comes from imageshack, it includes all the necessary coding to raise the image in your post. You DO NOT have to make any other provision than to copy and paste to a fresh line in your post. When you click on the chosen selection, it's highlighted, then you right click and then click on 'copy'... and then paste it to that fresh line in your post:

The result, while you're making your post looks like this:

Take care to not damage the string after you've put it into your post. Your picture won't appear if anything is changed at all.

My first postI was trying to understand how to post images - so I appreciate you explaining it so perfectly.For Mr Boor and the team - who I suppose were my teenage heroes. Mallory Park F5000 1973I've probably posted this in the wrong place - I apologize. donshut

You click on the upload option 'image/video' and then click on 'Browse', select the pic you intend uploading:

You have the option here of putting in your e.mail address, this will register you as an Imageshack user (preferred, but not totally necessary). If you have a pic that's too large (approximately 750 pixels wide is both plenty for most pictures and not going to draw complaints about being too large), you can resize the pic as you upload it:

Then click on 'Upload' and let Imageshack do its thing. When it has you will have the option to select a link for a forum, for an e.mail to a friend, or a thumbnail for either. The pink marking is for a full size pic to pop up within your post, the green is for a thumbnail that will require the reader to click on it to get the full size pic.

Notice also that your registration as an Imageshack user is able to be expanded with a username to the right? Good idea in most cases, your pics then don't disappear after a year of not being accessed... they're permanent as long as Imageshack remains viable. So you fill it in:

Imageshack e.mail you a registration link so you can retain that in your e.mail files for future reference.

Once registered, you have a new appearance for Imageshack... and eventually you'll have all your images racked up to the left of the screen while on the right you get a bunch of options:

Again, highlighted are the two main ones. The green highlight is when you want to just upload one pic at a time... and the pink is (provided you have Flash installed) going to enable you to upload several pics at once:

When you click on the latter, you get the following:

By now you know what to do here. I've shown mine here because I don't have Flash Player operating on IE, which is the browser I used for the previous pics.

Once you have a bunch of pics up there, the thumbnails of the left top of each pic will show with a range of options (the various icons you can see here) alongside. Putting your cursor on each will give you the details of what they all do, the main one is the blue 'i' at the top:

Again, I've marked a couple of options... pink is the full size pic, as you're getting here... green is the thumbnail as below:

...and the purple is an option to delete the promotional line for Imageshack which you see below the last pic.

You now need to place that in your post. As the string comes from imageshack, it includes all the necessary coding to raise the image in your post. You DO NOT have to make any other provision than to copy and paste to a fresh line in your post. When you click on the chosen selection, it's highlighted, then you right click and then click on 'copy'... and then paste it to that fresh line in your post:

The result, while you're making your post looks like this:

Take care to not damage the string after you've put it into your post. Your picture won't appear if anything is changed at all.

I haven't used Imageshack for a while and today discovered they've changed their layout. It took weeks of errors to get the hang of it last time. How - put it simply please! - can I post a picture here. I don't want a thumbnail (too small), and I don't want a link. Just a simple pic. The list of options is baffling and invariably I choose the wrong one.

I had laboured image-less for almost 2 years, having tried unsuccessfully a number of times to post images via ImageShack, PostImage and probably others.

I was sure it couldn't be all that hard, and that I couldn't be that stupid, so a month or 2 ago I once again laboured through Image Shack's procedures , and once again no image appeared, so, in desperation, I tried PostImage again. To my astonishment it worked! Not once, but again and again (like the girl on the train!). Since then I have been able to bore you with some of my 50's 60's and later pictures from New Zealand.

To me, the PostImage format seems simpler than Image Shack, so I will stick with it for now.
Also, use of the "Preview Post" tab allows you to be privately embarrassed at your own mishaps, without the whole TNF knowing, and the Edit facility is also useful.

I agree, it is simple, though it might point out where you were going wrong with Imageshack.

With Postimage, you simply put the cursor over the 'hotlink for forums' line and it's ready to copy, while Imageshack requires you to left click before you right click and copy.

Is this, perhaps, the case?

I didn't look any further, can you store images there permanently?

I can't find it immediately on the site, but I recall that casually posted images stayed for 12 months, and if you became a logged-in member, images remained there permanently and could be sorted into albums/galleries as in Flickr, Picasa and others.

That reminds me that I also tried posting from Picasa without success, maybe my cut-and-paste technique wasn't good enough at that time. One useful thing with Picasa was that I could scroll through my entire picture library (off line) without continually jumping in and out of folders. Useful (for all who aren't a D.McKinney) if looking for a lost picture which you can see in your mind's eye but don't know what you called it.

Reading your later post, Stu, I was prompted to check something out with Postimage...

They change the filename for your picture!

"So what?" you might say, "What's the matter with that?"

Well, down the track when the picture disappears and you want to put it back up, you can't go back and look at your post to find the filename that will enable you to readily locate it. This also happens with Tinypic.

Reading your later post, Stu, I was prompted to check something out with Postimage...

They change the filename for your picture!

"So what?" you might say, "What's the matter with that?"

Well, down the track when the picture disappears and you want to put it back up, you can't go back and look at your post to find the filename that will enable you to readily locate it. This also happens with Tinypic.

I checked through a number of the pictures I had posted (via PostImage) and couldn't see any changes of file names. But maybe we are not speaking quite the same language?

A brief further look at Postimage site suggests that pictures stay there permanently, but I will investigate more.

A slight problem last night with PostImage led me to wonder if Image Shack problem was due to my ISP and slow speed of my dial-up connection. (This would be consistent with another occasional message on Google screen.)

When trying to upload a picture, I received the message "Internal Error. Cannot Add Image To Database" which was effectively what Image Shack told me. All was OK today when I tried PostImage again.

Solution for me appears to be the long-delayed decision to upgrade to broadband service. I will ring ISP tomorrow.

Just a word of warning for anybody who uses the ImageShack Toolbar with Firefox.

Imageshack Toolbar is at present not compatible with the the new version of Firefox, FF4, which ships from 7am Pacific Time (2pm GMT) on Tuesday. I've been using the FF4 Release Candidate for a few days now: the toolbar has partial functionality, so shouldn't take long to fix, but as it's a third-party add-on, I assume ImageShack are waiting for the final release before tweaking it. So, when you download FF4, don't be surprised when it says the toolbar is incompatible. There is an alternative available in the mean time: an old extension called "Imageshack right click" has been updated to work with FF4.

You want to:1) copy the "Direct" link from Image Shack2) open this Forum and click "Reply" to whatever post you're replying to3) click the "Insert Image" button (4th from the right) on the Reply text page4) paste the Direct link into the "Please enter the URL for this image" box

You want to:1) copy the "Direct" link from Image Shack2) open this Forum and click "Reply" to whatever post you're replying to3) click the "Insert Image" button (4th from the right) on the Reply text page4) paste the Direct link into the "Please enter the URL for this image" box

Thanks for that, It worked ok in the end and I posted it on the transporters thread.

Originally posted by E1pixDes, I just went through this a few days ago.

You want to:1) copy the "Direct" link from Image Shack2) open this Forum and click "Reply" to whatever post you're replying to3) click the "Insert Image" button (4th from the right) on the Reply text page4) paste the Direct link into the "Please enter the URL for this image" box

Two things wrong with that...

First, you make no allowance for typing in some kind of message.

Second, you ignore the provision for the much simpler option of copying and pasting 'Hotlink for forums (1)' from imageshack. This saves you a step or two.

You uploaded your photo into Imageshack, then copied the link called 'Forum Code', pasted it into your post on this forum, and then tried to submit your post. Was it then that you got the error message?

You uploaded your photo into Imageshack, then copied the link called 'Forum Code', pasted it into your post on this forum, and then tried to submit your post. Was it then that you got the error message?

Hi Yes its all seems ok on Imageshack but when I post the fourm link I get that message

I have tried reading my way through this thread, but I can not see an answer to my own problems with posting images on the site. As always apologies if I am re-inventing the wheel, but ...

I use picasa to store and display my photos, I can copy a watcha m'callit from the site ready to paste as required, and this works on BHP, however, when I click on the 'image' icon it opens a box on the top left of my screen neatly covering the 'paste' instruction in the menu. I can not move this, so can not paste the link into the box, and I damned if I am going to try typing it in. Anybody else have this problem I can't believe it is due to the picasa site, it must be something on my computer running Windows 7.

Intersting to note that you can upload a photo for your avatar straight from your computer without recourse to a host site. I wonder why the technology doesn't extend to the posting of photos on threads. I am sure there will be some simple technical reason that currently escapes me.

Originally posted by Bauble.....I use picasa to store and display my photos, I can copy a watcha m'callit from the site ready to paste as required, and this works on BHP, however, when I click on the 'image' icon it opens a box on the top left of my screen neatly covering the 'paste' instruction in the menu. I can not move this, so can not paste the link into the box, and I damned if I am going to try typing it in. Anybody else have this problem I can't believe it is due to the picasa site, it must be something on my computer running Windows 7.

Usual disclaimers as to literacy, competence, nerdiness etc.....

I'm not sure that I follow exactly what you're saying, but I'll bet that it could be cured by not having your windows open full screen!

I never work full screen with anything. When you have a window at partial screen, you can move it around if something's in the way... and to get to pa partial screen you simply click on the little square with the two boxes overlapping on the top right of your window. You can adjust the size of that window at will using your cursor.

I also suspect you might be using the 'insert image' icon when you post. I don't know about Picasa, but if they're anything like any of the other host sites they will provide you with the coding and all you need to do is copy and paste to a post.

Can someone who has Picasa post some helpful screen shots of the process, please?

Intersting to note that you can upload a photo for your avatar straight from your computer without recourse to a host site. I wonder why the technology doesn't extend to the posting of photos on threads. I am sure there will be some simple technical reason that currently escapes me.

I use another forum in another place where images are posted exactly as above. I just click on a box when composing the post, browse my computer for the file and the file is uploaded when I post. Limit is a bit over 1Mb but that is plenty, at least for black and whites.

Avatars are tiny little files ~ your is 2.1kb. People may try to upload > 20mb files straight from their camera. Also once uploaded, there could be ownership issues.

This is apparently the answer to the query from tsrwright. I suspect that the size of the forum is the critical factor, and it is to the advantage of the forum operator to have the photo information stored on someone else's website.

Well, after spending a few day learning to scan and post to imageshack I need some help. I am using an apple Mac and have gotten the image link to the apple clipboard (that was hard) and I think I am almost ready to post but don't know what to do next. This cut and past stuff is all new to me and I thing most of the guidance here is PC oriented.
Thanks for any help.

I always put the image on the desktop, which makes it easier to access once you're in image shack. Once you've downloaded it to IS, simply click on the option (on the lefthand side of the page) for 'forums', and cut and paste the url into the TNF post

I always put the image on the desktop, which makes it easier to access once you're in image shack. Once you've downloaded it to IS, simply click on the option (on the lefthand side of the page) for 'forums', and cut and paste the url into the TNF post